The Passage

22For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

(John 5:22–24)

The Notes

The Law given by Moses in the Old Testament required that all work should cease by sundown on Friday. To uphold this requirement, religious leaders in Israel followed strict guidelines that regulated what could and could not be done on Saturdays.

While in Jerusalem, celebrating one of the Hebrew holidays prescribed in the Old Testament, Jesus healed a disabled man on the Sabbath. When the religious leaders complained, Jesus responded, “My Father is working until now, and I am working” (Jn 5:17).

Consequently, the religious leaders “were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God” (Jn 5:18).

The Terms

“hears” [akouō]: (1) literally, to have or exercise the faculty of hearing; (2) to hear a legal case, grant a hearing; (3) to receive news or information about something, learn about something; (4) to give careful attention to, listen to, heed; (5) to pay attention to by listening; (6) to be given a nickname or other identifying label; (7) to hear and understand a message, understand.

William Arndt, Frederick W. Danker, and Walter Bauer,A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 37–38.

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